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weblogs.variety.com - 11/7/2008

Oscar Watch: Doubt Reviews

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Let the fur fly. In the first review of Doubt, Todd McCarthy is casting seeds of doubt on Meryl Streep's performance. Like Frost/Nixon, this play-to-screen adaptation is a small-scale period two-hander. The movie enjoyably pits Streep as a tough nun at a Bronx Catholic school against ...

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variety.com - 11/7/2008

Doubt Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film Doubt

— variety.com — A Miramax release of a Scott Rudin production. Produced by Rudin, Mark Roybal. Executive producer, Celia Costas. Directed, written by John Patrick Shanley, based on his play. Sister Aloysius Beauvier - Meryl Streep Father Brendan Flynn - Philip ... (more) Doubt Movie Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Film ...

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hollywood-elsewhere.com - 11/7/2008

Needing to Know

— hollywood-elsewhere.com — I got into a disagreement with a fellow columnist after last week's screening of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. He didn't have a problem with the acting or the writing or the general thrust of it, even, but he felt it... (more) Needing to Know

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thehousenextdooronline.com - 11/4/2008

Blooming Lotus: Redemption and Spiritual Transformation in Kill Bill

— thehousenextdooronline.com — By Michael K. Crowley [ Editor's Note: The House Next Door is proud to reissue a series of articles developed at 24LiesASecond, a now-defunct platform for provocative criticism with an underdog bite. The essay below was first published on 06/03/2005, ... (more) Blooming Lotus: Redemption and Spiritual Transformation ...

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Early Word on ‘Doubt,’ Meryl Streep “Iffy”
Fataculture — ... job.” But on Streep, he is less than enthusiastic, “The film’s one iffy element, oddly enough, is Streep. This master screen actor, who applies a slight New Yawk accent to her phrasings, takes the vocal low road here as opposed to the more forceful approach of Cherry Jones in her riveting Broadway turn. By ostensibly underplaying the role’s villainy, however, Streep overdoes the melodrama, thereby turning Sister Aloysius into more of a stock figure than she ultimately seemed onstage” Anne Thompson is more forgiving, saying, “Streep–who definitely adds more nuance and character ...

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